Setting Up an Nginx Reverse Proxy Load Balancing Cluster on CentOS 7
Three CentOS 7 virtual machines are used to build a basic Nginx reverse proxy load balancing cluster:
192.168.2.76: Nginx load balancer
192.168.2.82: Web server (web01)
192.168.2.78: Web server (web02)
Install Nginx on All Nodes
Install required dependencies:
yum -y install openssl openssl-devel pcre pcre-devel gcc wget
Create the installati ...
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:43 +0000 by Grim...
Nginx Load-Balancing Algorithms and Reverse-Proxy Best Practices
Enviroment
Role
IP Address
LB
10.240.35.55
web1
10.240.35.56
web2
10.240.35.57
web3
10.240.35.58
Basic Round-Robin
Load-Balancer
upstream backend_pool {
server 10.240.35.56:80;
server 10.240.35.57:80;
server 10.240.35.58:80;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.demo.com;
location / {
proxy_pass ...
Posted on Sat, 09 May 2026 23:02:59 +0000 by bbristow